Thursday, April 23, 2009

Last night, the Orioles could not replicate what they did the day before and got beat badly by the Chicago White Sox, 8-2. Baltimore faced a tough customer in John Danks and he brough it on Wednesday as he tossed seven innings, and alllowed just one run on four hits. Amazingly, he retired 19 out of the last 21 batters he faced, and it seemed that the Orioles were not going to get anything from him at all to really hit.

After looking good for the first two weeks of the season, Jeremy Guthrie did not look good again after seeing the Red Sox this weekend. Guthrie allowed the White Sox to score in the top of the the first, and allowed two more in the second inning. The Orioles fell behind 4-0 as Jim Thome took the Baltimore starter deep. Dennis Sarfate gave up a two-run homer in the seventh inning and another run to put the game out of reach for the Orioles.